Workers piecing together dinosaur jigsaw

A familiar face has returned to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.

Its muttaburrasaurus skeleton has been reassembled at the newly-refurbished museum, in time for next Friday's public re-opening.

The museum's deputy director, Peter West, says the 10 metre-long dinosaur will be placed on the new verandah to welcome visitors.

"It is one of those artefacts that I think make a museum a museum," he said.

"It's something that all the young kids sort of look in wonder and awe at, that these creatures once existed hundreds of millions of years ago and so I guess from our point of view we'd be crazy not to put it back on display."